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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1887
Page
7
Local market notes show clam prices at 60 cents and pollock at 114 cents with hake listed at 144 per unit. Items reflect a lean supply period around Providence River.
The August 26 market shows flour steady with mills firm on prices. Corn and oats are quiet to modestly active with limited supply and varied bids. Carload quotes cover flour types, corn, oats, rye, malt, and hops with specific bid and asking ranges.
Butter markets are quiet at easy prices with slow sales. Liverpool and New York show mixed demand for creamery, dairy, and cheese with prices largely unchanged. Beasts include strong bean tones, firm hay and rye straw, and active poultry trade with lower recent prices for fowls and chickens.
Watermelons abundant with slow sale across sizes 18 14c 10 12c 8 9c. Plums plentiful with varied crates and prices. Bartlett pears steady, muskmelons fair demand with ample supply 150 175 per bbl canteloupes 2 250 per bbl. Grapes ample black lots poor condition slow. Apples moderate pip ins demand York State fruit slow. Peaches sold Friday 1 160 common 75 250 up basket for choice. Detailed listings for apples pears grapes oranges lemons bananas with species and price ranges.
A list of varied produce and staples with mixed prices appears, including onions, tomatoes, cabbages, beans, corn, beets, turnips, squash, carrots, lettuce, cucumbers, parsnips and more. Prices range from about 40 to 75 cents per unit, with several bulk quantities noted in bush or bbl terms.
A fragment lists item pricing with 150 per person for bush products and pickles at 15 cents per 100, plus a reference to coarse bush for sale.
Pork and lard hold firm with prices unchanged. Beef and veal sales show steady price levels. veals and lambs quiet. Numerous beef cuts and pork products listed with varied prices, including prime and extra prime for pork, and fresh ribs, sausage, and hams priced across ranges.
Liverpool futures opened dull and closed steady with August at 6 25 64d and later months mostly steady. Spot Upland and Orleans at sled price. 8000 bales sold, 6300 American. New York spot opened easy then steady with mixed middling prices. Futures quotes shown for several months with small gaps. Pipeline certificates closed and daily oil market data noted. Sugar and molasses prices described as steady with refined sugar firm and various grade quotes.
Aug 26 report from New York and others details flour receipts exports and prices across Chicago St Louis Toledo Cincinnati Milwaukee Detroit Minneapolis and more. It lists No 2 and mixed wheats prices, various flour forecasts, pork and lard notes, and freight rates with receipts and shipments for the day.
Cattle receipts at Chicago on Aug 26 total 10 000 with 5 000 shipments. Shipping steers bring 3 20 to 5 10, stockers and feeders 1 90 to 3 35, cows bulls and mixed 1 50 to 300, Texas cattle 1 75 to 800, Colorado 3 75 to 3 85. Hogs receipts not shown.
Kansas City reports firm hog market with 12 000 shipments and 6000 strong offerings. prices range from 4 85 5 15 to 5 45 with lighter lots around 4 85 5 40. Western natives quoted 3 15 to 8 10 with Texans at 2 60 to 3 00. Lambs 4 25 to 5 50. Peoria notes firmer hogs with most sales at 4 90 5 35. receipts 526, shipments 387.
The weekly cotton market report shows varied net receipts across ports including Augusta, Galveston, New Orleans and Savannah with mixed price movements from steady to firm or easy. Export activity to France and Britain is noted alongside large stockpiles at New York and Liverpool, with seven day consolidated receipts at 19 270 and total exports reaching 4 894 608.
Cargoes off the coast show wheat easier while corn remains quiet. At Liverpool and Paris markets wheat and flour soften with mixed American and California grades listed. Wool sales in Antwerp indicate active River Plate demand and varied regional offerings, with prices in francs for Buenos Aires and Montevideo lots.
Report of ship and schooner cargoes showing Brig Sunshine with 411 hhds 25 tesc 90 bags sugar for Continental Sugar Refinery at Arecibo. Brig Alpha 3800 hhds 500 bags sugar for Continental Sugar Refinery at Bear River NS. Schooner Carrie 54 cords wood 7 cases eggs 6000 feet piling at Weymouth NS. Schooner Belmont 70 cords wood 21 dozen eggs at Bellevue NS. Schooner Orinoco 76 cords wood 3 boxes eggs at Port Williams NS. Atwood carries 3 cases eggs 110000 feet spruce lumber 10000 laths.
A compilation of outbound cargoes from St John New Brunswick Canning Nova Scotia Yarmouth Nova Scotia and Cayenne FG detailing quantities of cornmeal flour oil oilcake meal marble whisky and other goods aboard schooners steamer brig and various ships. Notable loads include Riverdale Nellie Blanche Yarmouth Energy and multiple food commodities fish lard canned goods and household items.
Receipts list from multiple railroads including Boston & Albany Grand Junction Providence Old Colony New York & New England Fitchburg Boston & Maine Eastern/Western divisions. Entries show quantities of wool flour corn oats malt tallow bacon butter cheese eggs potatoes apples lard leather hides skins pelts and more across August 26 1887.
A fragmented inventory lists bulk goods including leather bales hides and pelts, various farm products, and commodities such as flour sugar molasses lard butter eggs cheese beans potatoes and coffee. The items are grouped by units like bales tubs cases bbls bags and boxes with scattered quantities.
Augusta Georgia to Winchester Virginia shows a wide roster of boot and shoe buyers and firms. Names include Mulherin Rice and Co Burlington IA Andre Gregg of Gregg and Means Canton MS Gross Tre Peach, Rosenthal Smith Co Chicago, Schnadig Bros Chicago Sloat Wallace Sloat Wells M D Wells Co Clarksville Peck Cincinnati Laws Cowan Mc Grath Muth Rich Kansas City Green Wick Wick Louisville Wood Wood Granman Shinneapolis BCI Clementson New Castle Carson Portsmouth Bennett Pine Bluff Blumenthal Reading Bowie McLaughlin Rodgers Winchester Bantz.
Boston and Lowell Railroad announces daily through service from Boston via Causeway Street and 218 Washington Street to Montreal via Central Vermont and Montreal and Boston Air Line. Sleeping cars and parlor cars available. local Boston to Manchester Concord NH regions and internal branches listed with varied departures.
The text shows scattered times and abbreviations likely from a timetable or listing. It contains multiple daily slots am pm hours, with no clear events, places, or names to identify a coherent item.
Full timetable listing local and through train times across multiple towns including Lawrence Wilmington Stoneham Bedford Concord Lexington Arlington and Boston area stations. Note indicates time table availability at stations and officials Mell en and Storer as general superintendent and passenger agent.
Timetable notes special and regular trains serving Augusta Haymarket Causeway St routes to Bar Harbor Sargot St John Halifax Portland Rockland Lewiston Manchester North Conway Portland including a Bangor Bar Harbor express with Mt Desert Ferry connection and return times to Boston.
Dates list weekday trains to and from Boston with Fall River Line boats to New York. Timetables include Ashmont Barnstable Hyannis Scituate Cohasset Hingham Weymouth Nantucket and other stops, with multiple return times and connections via Brockton Taunton Newport and Plymouth.
The Central Massachusetts Railroad announces new schedules from Boston to Ware and branches. Daily and Sunday departures include 7.15 am 12.05 pm and 3.50 pm from Boston to Ware, with multiple way stations such as Hanson Jefferson Sudbury Wayland Weston Belmont and Waverly listed along the line. General Passenger Agent E D Storen and Superintendent S Mellen oversee operations.
A detailed railway schedule lists multiple daily departures and returns for the Shore Line Fast Express and connecting services. It covers Providence, New York, Attleboro, Canton Junction, Sharon and other points with specific times, frequencies, and late-evening adjustments. A. A. Folsom, Supt., notes weekday and weekend variations and special handling for certain routes.
Western Division trains depart Boston for Alton Bay Rochester and Farmington with a dense timetable including Andover Dover Haverhill Melrose Merrimac North Andover and Salem notes. Sunday trains list additional departures to Lawrence Manchester Biddeford Portland and Bangor along with scattered morning and evening slots.
Eastern Division schedule shows trains from Boston Causeway Street to Amesbury Beverly Biddeford Chelsea and many coastal towns. It lists departure times, notes special services via Saugus and South Reading branches, and mentions city ticket office and Pullman cars on Portland and Bangor trains.
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